One of the major reasons why I haven’t been blogging much is because I have spent most of my “free” time working on the Microsoft TechNet Wiki writing what I call the “PerfGuide”. We have a lot of great content up there for Windows performance analysis...

To prevent a process from crashing due to a System.OutOfMemory condition, the .NET garbage collector (GC) automatically defragments virtual memory. It can only do this for Gen 0 and Gen 1 memory allocations. Any allocations at 64 KB or larger will go...